Sean GlazeWorkplace Culture Speaker | Facilitator, Great Results Team Building · Leadership lessons from the locker room that change how your people work together.

HOW CAN YOU IMPROVE YOUR DAILY TEAM HUDDLE

23 Apr 2023 · 1 min

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In this short coaching talk, Sean Glaze shares a practical approach to revitalizing daily team huddles. He recounts a conversation with a young leader who felt overwhelmed by trying to manage everything herself and was seeking ways to involve her team more effectively. Glaze emphasizes that meetings should be viewed as cultural tools, not just information exchanges. He advises leaders to use huddles to strengthen connections, celebrate positive behaviors, and end with clear commitments. A concrete tactic he highlights is the creation of a "celebration box," where team members can submit ideas and observations that reflect the desired values, fostering investment and participation. By shifting the focus from pure content to culture, leaders can make meetings more engaging and drive stronger team commitment.

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So how can you improve your daily team huddles? Well, I had a coaching conversation with a young leader who felt overwhelmed because she was trying to do too much herself, and she asked how she could involve others in those daily huddles that weren't going very well. And I was excited to share with her that meetings aren't just about information. Every meeting you have is a tool to improve your culture, so you need to make time to strengthen connections and to celebrate positive behaviors and always finish with commitments. Their investment in team meetings leads to commitments. In our trainings, we talked about the importance of praise, and so she took that idea and began a celebration box where her team members were able to share ideas and things that they noticed that would help to demonstrate the values that they wanted to emphasize. That's how you get people to be more invested and involved in your team meetings, and you make meetings more about culture than just content. I'm Sean Glaze. That's what effective leaders do.